92 PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 
Se-me-car’-pus .. S2mz2idn, Kar pos (Greek), a mark, nut ; (all) : black juice of the 
nut used for marking, or tracing designs upon, cloth 
(N. 8/415); (often wrongly supposed to come from the 
Latins emi, a half)); 
se -mi-a-la -ta ... (Latin), half winged, or winged for a portion only ; 
se-mi-am-plex-ic-au’- (Latin), half stem-clasping, amplexicaul to a less degree ; 
lis. 
se’-mic-or-da’-ta ... (Latin), half cordate, in oblique leaves the base is often cordate 
On one side and acute on the other; 
se’-mid-ec-an’-dra_ ... (Latin), half ten stamened; with ten filaments of which only 
five antherifervus ; 
se-mi-e-rec’-tus ... (Latin), half erect, with a tendency partially to climb, partially 
to be erect; 
se-mit’-er-es ... (Latin), half cylindric, flat on one side and tercte (q.v.) on the 
other ; 
sem-per-flo’-rens ... (Latin), always flowering ; 
sem-per-ver-eos ... (Latin), evergreen; 
Sen-eC-1-0 cf ... Sénex (Latin), an old man; (all :) pappus [byaline (q.v.) calyx} 
usually white and hair-like, name of the plant used by Pliny, 
(N. 3/419) ; 
sea-no-i'-dés ... ... (quaasi-Greek), resembling Senna (Cassia, alias Senna) [from 
Sena (Arabic) (Rox, 2/346) ]; 
sen-tic-o-sa ... ... (Latin), of the nature of a thorn bush ; 
sep-al-o'-8a ... ... (Latin), with conspicuous sepals ; 
se-pi-a'-rl-a... ... (Latin), usually found in hedges ; 
sep-ta’-ta he ... (Latin), partitioned, divided by partitions into cells ; 
sep’-tem . (Latin), Seven ; 
sep-tem-cos-ta’-tus a (Latin), seven ribbed, when seven ribs all proceed from the 
sep-tem-ner’-vis tal base of a leaf ; 
seq-uoi a yes ... (com.) See quayah a celebrated Cherokee (North American 
Indian) Chief (N. 3/421) of gigantic stature; (all:) the 
enormous growth of these species; the tallest tree of the 
“Mammoth Grove” of these trees, found by a hunting 
party in June 1859, in Upper California, was 327 feet high 
and 90 teet girth at the base ; another larger one, found 
later, was 112 feet girth and broken off at 300 feet, but, 
from its symmetry, Was calculated to be 450 feet high, and 
its annual rings showed it to be 1,100 years old (Treas. Bot.) 
ser-i-a’-li8 .. (Latin), in rows ; 
se-ric -6-a ae ... (Latin), silky, covered with fine close shiny straight hairs 
(H.); 
ser-pen-ti -na ... (Latin), pertaining to snakes, snake like, or antidote to snake 
poison ; 
ser-ra’-ta son ... (Latin), serrate, toothed like a saw with the teeth directed 
forward (Ee 
ser-ra’-tif-ol’-i-us ... (Latin), with serrate leaves ; 
ser-rul-a-ta ... ... (Latin), serrulate, serrate with further small teeth in each 
main tooth ; 
Ses-ban’-I-a ... ... Sdisbdn (Arabic), name of the plant (N 3/425; McL. 3/805) ; 
ses-sil-if-lo’-rum ... (Latin), with sessile flowers ; 
e8’-eil iz Ian. ... (Latin), sessile, attached directly without a stalk (H.) ; 
ses-sll-0-1’-dés .. (quasi-Greek), resembling the species sessilis ; 
se-tig’-er-a_... ... (Latin) bearing bristles ; 
se-to’-8a Se ... (Latin) bristly, furnished with stiff hairs (H.) ; 
BOX 5. she .. (Latin), six; 
sex-en’-nis... ... (Latin), sie yearly, flowering, etc., once in six years ; 
sey-chel-la’-rum ... (loc.) of tne Seychelles, islands in the Indian Ocean, east of 
Zanzibar ; 
Shor'-6-a oe .. (com.) Sir John Shore, afterwards Lord Teignmouth, Governor- 
General of India, 17983—1798 [I. F. VII1-473 ; Rox. 2/615] 
Shu-te’-ri-a ... ... (com.) Dr. Shuter, formerly a physician in Madyas (ch.) ; 
Shut-tlé-worth’-i-i ... (com.) of Shuttle worth ; 
si’-am-6-a Se 4. (loc.) pertaining to Siam, East of Burma and South of the Shan 
States ; 
